Word: majoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trimble, who is a member of the track team and holds Harvard's record for the javelin, heads the new undergraduate slate which is composed of representatives of all major and minor sports as well as House representatives. Houston is football captain...
Lowall will report major crimes, cover trials, study penal and rehabilitation systems, and look into gambling, racketeering and law enforcement. Explained Publisher Hoyt: "We want to get at the underlying reasons for crime, its implications, the responsibilities of society." Editor Lowall, who likes his crime served up in the smoking hot manner of the '20s, put it more bluntly: "I'm going to be house dick for the Denver Post." His first assignment: the bootlegging business in dry Oklahoma...
...masquerade of the cellar-dwelling Washington Senators had fooled no one; it was not a major-league ball club. Its weird collection of refugees from the minors did not hit, field, hustle or get paid as big-leaguers should. As the season ended (with the Senators 47 games behind), even some of the staunchest fans were boycotting Griffith Stadium. Penny-pinching old (79) Clark Griffith, who had met similar crises in the past simply by firing the manager, knew that it would not be enough this time...
...English Composer Benjamin Britten's music (Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia). This week, a Town Hall audience turned out to hear some Britten music played by the composer himself. As accompanist for English Tenor Peter Pears, who created the leading roles in all of Britten's major operas, "Benjy" proved himself as astute on the platform at the piano as he is in his parlor with a pen. When the nicely varied and nicely performed program of original Brittens, Britten-arranged Purcell and English folk songs was over, the welcoming audience showed its appreciation...
Born. To Dorothy Lamour (nee Slater), 34, cinema sarongstress and leading lady to Hope and Crosby (Road to Utopia, Road to Morocco, etc.), and second husband William Ross Howard III, 42, wartime A.A.F. major now an advertising executive: their second child, second son; in Los Angeles. Name: Richard Thompson. Weight...